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Abstract:
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This report summarizes the progress achieved and the challenges that still have to be met in the six areas of interventions in which the consultant was involved in the first half of 2007. The report covers an update on the performance of the Mchinji pilot social cash transfer scheme, which was designed from April to August 2006 and is implemented since September 2006; the planning and preparation of the scale up the pilot scheme to 3 more districts in 2007 and to another 3 districts in 2008; the roll out of the scheme in Likoma District as the first step in the process of scaling up; Capacity constraints and capacity building activities at district and national level; Support for the process of elaborating a national social protection policy and programme for Malawi; the challenge of linking the social cash transfer scheme to ongoing social and economic programmes and services and of complementing the scheme with programmes that target ultra poor households which are not labour constrained |